One of Lift Conference’s special treats is the Lift Experience, a series of projects and installations from artist and designers all over the world. Discover each installation on this blog, and check out the Lift experience page for more information!
Magyar Telekom's innovation lab, Kitchen Budapest , opened in June 2007, is a new media lab for young researchers who are interested in the convergence of mobile communication, online communities and urban space and are passionate about creating experimental projects in cross-disciplinary teams.
This year at Lift09 the KiBu think tank will be presenting three projects from their innovation research lab: Tone Tags, Himes and Nighmo.
Tone tags are small devices that can record and loop sounds. Once the button is pressed, you can make some noise and each tag starts cycling it endlessly. Tone tags can on one hand represented as an interactive sound installation or these devices can also be tracked by gps in a given place. In this instance the Tone tags documents and projects the sound of an individual geographically. For the Lift09 Experience, this project will be a collective installation piece of multiple Tone tags on the wall representing the global, more macro-view, of how in effect they can represent the overall constellation of the sound nodes.

Himes is a special USB flash drive which was designed by the researchers of KiBu for the 100% Design Tokyo design festival and market. These small, discrete USB flash drives are hidden in functional products such as earings, key and cell phone chains. The egg-like shape and patterns are based on Hungarian traditions, and every egg is painted by hand. The practicality and simple style gives the Himes collection more of a modern and minimalist edge; an accessory any girl would want!

Nighmo one of KiBu’s new home night-light concepts will also be showing. The aim of this project is to develop technology for aiding human orientation while moving at night in dark interior spaces. Nighmo is sensitive to motion and creates light, ambient enough to sense space, furniture, and other things around the room. Check out Nighmo’s home page to see it in action!
